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Disappointment sure, but to say that they're lame for not honoring the order is kind of pushing the envelope since I haven't met another company that equals the service and support HR does.

Nope, no load resistor required. It behaved pretty weirdly until I got it attached to the sigma22 but once it had that load it was happy and so far has worked without a hitch. It's a pretty elaborate way of doing things but once completed is really sweet. Next time I'll have a go at the thermal shut down feature. And Al, yes I'm really serious. The entire amp was designed to be able to be deconstructed with a minimum of fuss so it won't really be that much work but I'm sick of things falling apart when I ship them so I'm going to go a bit berserk on this one. Some components already use other means of holding them permanently (lock washers, lock nuts etc) so that eliminates a few things too. Also, I'm going to have to do one serious tweak to the R channel which refuses to zero out the dc offset despite using what were supposed to be fully matched components.

Thanks ryan, speaker output debacle aside I'm pretty pleased with how it all came together. I think it represents a culmination of a lot of what I've learned building other projects. And of course, in truth, the entire thing will be getting diassembled and reassembled prior to shipping so that each and every connector can get a dose of loctite. I'm not looking forward to that.

Well, I had to let it go since mike didn't want it once I couldn't figure out why the speaker output didn't work.

Do you expect them to restock so they can once again sell them at a loss? Get over it.

I'd guess they were inundated with web and possibly phone orders so there were bound to be some extras that got placed but couldn't be filled.

Wow, just wow. That "end of the world" video is pure win.

Happy Birthday to one of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

That'd be a pretty un-fun venture if you ask me. Nothing like founding a company that exists for the express purpose of dealing with another company's unsatisfied/pissed-off customers. The other issue would be that a lot of these repairs should be covered under warranty which no third party would be able to offer. cj, you should look into the warranty status of your amp. May be that the repairs won't cost you anything more than shipping?

Happy Birthday Haj!

Holy sheep, I've never seen the sink that clean before!!

*cough* driver transplant *cough*

Congrats Al, that looks sweet! And of course it's good to know that it's Voltron approved as well.

It's official, this thread sucks on an epic level.

I call shenanigans, it's been over an hour. /me hopes that everything survived the trip ok.

Wuhoo! tuned and waiting...

Wellllllll, we're waiting!!! Pics or ban, robot-man.

Nice Vicki.

I use less torrent, more rapidshare. For me the speeds are faster and the content more reliable. You have to know where to look for stuff but once you figure that out there is an amazing amount of material out there. I'm forever grateful to rapidshare for providing the entire history of Top Gear episodes.

It's hard to say Earl. Most of the supply issues have just been a result of underestimating demand for the buffalo DAC coupled with the fact that both Brian and Russ both do this in their spare time. I just went back and checked the DIY Audio thread that has the most recent Counterpoint (the discrete stage) information, evidently they found an issue while testing the prototype and are still working on it, ETA unknown.

Happy Birthday!

I think Twisted Pear's discrete output stage is just about done as well.

Happy Turkey Day Everyone.

For now you really should just try to track down an SRM1 or SRD7 so you can at least enjoy them. Both of those would be pretty flippable for minimal loss down the road.

Got some work done on a certain beta22 project. It was my first time working with the s24/e24 pieces and there were a few hiccups, but nothing terminal. Power supply is now fully functional and tonight I should get rolling on installing the amp boards into the chassis.